Sarah Dessen Quotes

All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

A united front announcing a split.

Why does she have wings?'So she can fly.

It's hard to do, " I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?

It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.

You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

The first step is always the hardest

Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

the truth about forever is that it is happening right now

Like maybe it's forever, maybe it's not

If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Once you love something, you always love it in someway. You have to. it's like, part of you for good.

I planned my whole future around Adam, ' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No, ' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone.

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.